Great movie...with the finale affected with bad judgement (SPOILERS)

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2003)

I thought I was watching something that would become a classic. And I think this movie will somehow survive the test of time, but it could have been better. The filmmakers had the means in their hands, to do so. It's right there, on the DVD. I'm talking about the alternative ending, and a deleted scene that is rather an alternative scene that precedes the ending and that should have stayed instead of that in the final version. Even so, there would have remain some of the things that for me spoiled the movie towards the end, and converted it in another cheap slasher. We pass from a good science fiction-suspense movie, to a copy of any film that you can remember in which a killer is bloodily disposing of everybody in sight. But that alternative pre-ending, and the alternative ending, would have saved the day. The first one, because, among other things, the breaking and massive attack of many zombies have a better effect that just one doing all the havoc. And the latter, because it's more according with the general mood of the movie, and would have left us guessing. (Note: I'm satisfied with the alternate ending, but stripped from the second alternate ending -or continuation- that also comes in the DVD, which is also guilty of being Hollywood-esque). My guess is that the filmmakers were afraid of leaving the movie with no happy ending, and that was their biggest mistake. It's a shame, because it's all there, in the DVD. You just wish you could put the pieces in order. I gave it 7/10, because for seven tenths of the way, it's very good.